Cats are Saito’s favorite animal, and after studying primate cognition in graduate school, she set her research sights on the oft-misunderstood pets.Is everything you think about cats wrong ...

Cats interact with us when they want," said Saito. Projects to understand simple social behaviors like name recognition in cats may give clues to how we humans became social.

A previous study by Saito in March 2013 found cats can recognize their human's voice apart from other human voices. And we're sure that's not the last we will learn about those fascinating felines.

Japanese researchers tested cats' reactions to their owners, suggesting that because cats "domesticated themselves" they never needed to take notice James Vincent Saturday 30 November 2013 11:23 GMT ...

Saito even admits that her own cat doesn’t always respond to her calls. But she prefers to think of this petulance as endearing: “I love cats,” she tells Carrie Arnold of National Geographic.

Cats are notorious for their indifference to humans: ... Atsuko Saito, a behavioral scientist now at Sophia University in Tokyo, previously showed that cats can recognize their owner’s voice.

Japanese researchers have tested whether or not cats recognize their owners’ voices. The good news: they can. The bad news: they’re probably going to ignore it. Two researchers, Atsuko Saito ...

Atsuko Saito, a cognitive biologist at the University of Tokyo, and her colleagues visited 11 households with pet cats (Felis catus) and asked the owner to read a list of four nouns to their pet.